14 - Xu Xin's power

As the boy got taken off the arena, Xu Xin realized that he still felt uncomfortable from his breakthrough, and he wondered why there was so much extra inner energy within his dantian. As such, he signaled that he was going to fight again.

The people around him finally started to take him seriously as they realized that he really was quite terrifying.

However, the next moment, they were baffled, as he signaled that he wanted to fight against multiple people at the same time. They instantly called out insults, calling him arrogant, but some of the perceptive people saw no signs of arrogance on his face whatsoever.

After a few moments, a group was arranged to go up and fight him. After all, fighting against a group was allowed, and it was actually encouraged in order to give people a better chance of survival in future battles outside the arena.

Soon, a group of four people came up, three of which were girls and one boy.

Each of these people were about the same level of strength as the boy he had just fought, but they would work as a group to attack him.

As Xu Xin looked at these people, he realized that this wasn't going to be an easy fight.

The boy in the group had a sword, while two girls had a dagger and the other had gloves with metal knuckles on.

At this moment, the boy holding the sword spoke.

"Xu Xin! You may be quite skilled, but you're too conceited to think that you can fight against an entire group at once!"

However, despite saying this, he was slightly lacking in confidence, and though it wasn't obvious to anyone in the stands watching the fight, Xu Xin very clearly noticed.

His strongest ability was his ability to manipulate others, and he was so unnaturally good at it that at his peak, people felt that he was an absolutely terrifying adversary even if they were stronger than him.

He had a way of always managing to find people's weaknesses, to get into their heads and mess with them, breaking away at their confidence piece by piece, until there was nothing left but dread.

He even had a nickname of mind-breaker, because he had managed to drive several of the prisoners in the dungeon crazy. Some of them even committed suicide after his interrogations due to insanity.

At this moment, Xu Xin spoke for the first time.

"You are fighting against me as a group, yet you still don't have the confidence to beat me? What could I possibly do to a group of four people that all have weapons anyway?"

Xu Xin belittled himself while saying this, but while he said this, his eyes were locked onto the group, particularly the boy with the sword, who seemed to be the leader. His expression had not changed in the slightest, as if nothing in this world could make his expression change.

As he heard this, the boy was instantly shocked. How had Xu Xin managed to notice the very slight lack of confidence in his expression? Even he himself was barely aware of this lack of confidence, yet it had not escaped Xu Xin's eyes?

It was at this moment that the mind games began, even before the fight had even started. After all, wits were a part of your strength.

The group of four had spread out to surround Xu Xin, as per his request, and they felt that something was off. However, how could Xu Xin possibly win? It was a four-on-one.

At this moment, the fight finally started, and the group of four charged at Xu Xin.

The boy with the sword was at his front, the girls with the knives at his sides, and the girl with the brass knuckles at the back.

As they charged at him, Xu Xin actually stood still, still wearing that blank expression on his face, as if he didn't have four people charging straight at him.

Seeing the speed of these people, Xu Xin made a calculation in his mind, and he quickly figured out exactly what to do while also taking account of the inner energy types of each person.

The only person who's inner energy type he didn't know and know how to fight was the girl behind him, but it didn't matter at this moment as a smile covered his face.

Just a few moments before they were all about to reach him, he suddenly squatted down and jumped up and backwards into the air, going high enough that he went above their heads as he did a standing backflip.

As he went upside down, he saw the girl with the brass knuckles behind him, and he saw her inner energy type, as well as her astonished face.

Then, without the slightest bit of mercy, Xu Xin finished his flip and slammed his heels into the girl's back, instantly knocking her to the ground while the other people were still confused as to what was happening.

He then did another flip using the momentum from pushing off the girl's back and landed on the ground, perfectly fine, wearing a casual smile on his face, as if he had not done anything at all just now.

There was no major damage done to the girl, but she felt that her inner energy couldn't properly circulate, and she felt that her movements were somewhat erratic and uncontrollable, which was the effect of the watery inner energy that Xu Xin had sent into her body.

It was the first time he had actually attacked with the watery inner energy rather than just putting it into his opponent's body, and the effects were surprising.

The girl had a water type inner energy as well, but she suddenly panicked as she realized that Xu Xin's inner energy was trying to devour hers and attack it relentlessly, as if they were mortal enemies.

As she realized this, she started to panic, but before anything else happened, the three that were around her suddenly charged at Xu Xin, realizing from her expression of panic that something was wrong with her.

She quickly stood up and backed away, trying to use her own watery inner energy to push his out of her body, but she quickly realized that the best she could do was stop it from spreading it and localize it to where it was now.

However, it had already spread through her chest, and only a small portion of her dantian was not surrounded by his inner energy, meaning that she could only use a small portion of her power in this fight, which scared her.

Meanwhile, Xu Xin faced the other three in the group, and they realized that even now, he still had the same smile on his face. He hadn't even taken his hands out from behind his back yet, and they realized just how odd he was.

It was only now that they and everyone in the audience realized that he had fought every single fight so far with a different style of fighting, meaning that they couldn't predict how he would fight.

The first person to reach him was the boy with the sword, and he cleaved sideways with it, seemingly trying to cut Xu Xin in half. However, his attack completely missed as Xu Xin leaned so far backwards that it seemed he would fall over, catching himself with his arms as they seemed to turn backwards.

He then spun at a seemingly impossible angle to leap while leaning back and spin his whole body in order to kick the boy's arm as it swung over his body, and his leg struck true, violently slamming into his wrist.

The boy instantly yelled out in pain, but it wasn't over yet. Xu Xin then continued to use his leg to hook around the boy's arm and pull his entire body out from under the blade as he dodged the strike from the girl who had just attempted to stab him while he was bent over.

Xu Xin had used his icy inner energy to partially freeze the boy's arm in order to make it easier to pull himself out from under the blade, and he suddenly pushed off the ground with his arms, easily avoiding the incoming attack of the second girl and seemingly slithered between the attacks of the three like a snake.

He then landed on the ground nearby, seeming to be perfectly fine, having already put his hands back behind his back.

During these short exchanges, all four people in the group had attempted to attack Xu Xin, but instead of winning as they expected, instead, one of them was currently out of the fight for at least a little while while another was injured, with their opponent being perfectly fine, all while he didn't even use his hands to fight.

Only now did people realize how truly terrifying he was. Most people probably wouldn't even be able to react that fast, but not only had he reacted, he had even caused quite a bit of damage to their team during this time.

Xu Xin had a smile on his face, and he spoke quietly, but everyone in the arena could hear him.

"The innocent are the first to fall, followed by the inexperienced, followed by the arrogant. I see no maturity in you, I see no skill, and I see children who overestimate themselves; kids who haven't seen the terrors of this world."

With this, Xu Xin charged forward without another word, going straight towards the girl with the knife on the right side of the boy.

She was the one furthest from him, but he still charged at her.

They realized that they had overestimated themselves from the start, but hearing his words, they couldn't help but get angry. He was directly insulting them, and he had no mercy.

They also felt that it would be impossible that he was mature, that he was experienced, and that he had no arrogance if he was about the same age as them, but the second point had already been proven while the first and third were in the middle of being proven as well.

As he approached the girl with the knife, the boy with the sword and the other girl with a knife instantly swung out their weapons, while the girl he was aiming at dodged to the side.

Suddenly, he dove down to the ground, going under both strikes, and he swung his legs out to the side, sweeping under the legs of the girl and the boy, knocking them over.

The boy had swung his sword downwards, and it barely managed to hit Xu Xin's back, but it was knocked to the side when the boy fell over, not even cutting half an inch into Xu Xin's body where it struck, while it also got covered in frost as it pulled out.

Xu Xin then quickly pushed up off the ground with his hand, and he spun sideways to avoid the strike of the second girl as it came in, and he then grabbed her wrist, standing up easily as he stopped her arm dead in its tracks.

She tried to pull her arm away in a panic, but she found that Xu Xin's grip was like iron, and she could barely even move his arm at all, let alone break free.

As she looked at Xu Xin's face, she realized that he had the same casual smile on his face while his aquamarine eyes seemed to be an abyss that would swallow her whole. Never before had she seen such beautiful but terrifying eyes that seemed to stare into her very soul.

Then, without even turning to look, Xu Xin kicked backwards, his boot slamming straight into the chest of the boy with the sword, who was trying to get up and attack him, and the boy instantly fell back over, falling into the girl behind him.

Finally, the girl who's wrist he grabbed finally reacted and swung her other fist towards him, but he simply caught her fist like it was nothing, and even her inner energy did absolutely nothing to him.

She had a fire type inner energy, and it was quite strong too, but against Xu Xin, who's inner energy was on the same level as hers, it did absolutely nothing to help her since they both countered each other.

He then swung his leg, knocking her over, and he dropped her arms before swinging his leg again, hitting her in the face with his knee, instantly knocking her out.

Then, he quickly jumped over her body as he heard the boy behind him attack once again, and the boy was forced to stop in his tracks as his attack got very near to the unconscious girl.

Then, all three remaining fighters stared at him cautiously, clearly scared by his terrifying power.